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Publisher: Independently published
Publication Date: 31st May 2024
Genre: Horror
Summary:
In the ominous corridors of 1950, Eleanor Mayfield flees from her tormented past into the chilling embrace of an eerie mental institution. Each night, reality blurs as whispers and ghostly visions relentlessly stalk her. Accompanied only by a devoted security guard and a cryptic caretaker, Eleanor plunges into the institution's sinister depths, unveiling terrifying secrets that should have stayed hidden.
Decades later, Alina MacLeod grapples with her own demons within those same crumbling walls. Hunted by a vindictive ex-lover, her discovery of ties to Eleanor's past draws her into a chilling moment of fear that defies time. Together, these women from different times untangle a haunting legacy of dread, confronting the horrors that link their destinies.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Hygge Book Tours and Calum France for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
So I was really glad that I finished this book in the daylight hours, I know that sounds daft but it's got a lot of psychological horror aspects to it that will stick in your head and make you check all the shadows with a little bit of trepidation. I was expecting your normal ghost-type horror, and whilst this has the ghosts in it, it is way more than that it borrows from various different classic horror techniques that I've seen in some brilliant horror films and I loved seeing them come to life on the page. I've really enjoyed reading it, occasionally I've disliked reading it when something has stuck around in my mind way past me putting the book down, but that just goes to show how brilliantly Calum France has written this.
His writing style was brilliant from the off, it completely draws you into the story and you get invested in Eleanor's and then Alina's story and you are rooting for both of them in turn, you want them to survive being in this building and whatever haunts it. I think the only issue I had with the whole book was the numbering, i thought they were continuous chapters within the different time sections but we kept getting 1 etc for each of those I thought was a chapter. But aside from that I loved the book, it had almost two endings because when we get to the end of Eleanor's section it reads like the end of the book and we were about 50% through and the beginning of Alina's section almost feels like we're heading to a different book we don't get the connecting part of the storyline for a little while but when we do it all happens fairly quickly.
This is definitely one of my favourite horror reads of this year and I'm hoping we get another book from Calum France soon.
Firstly thank you to Hygge Book Tours and Calum France for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
So I was really glad that I finished this book in the daylight hours, I know that sounds daft but it's got a lot of psychological horror aspects to it that will stick in your head and make you check all the shadows with a little bit of trepidation. I was expecting your normal ghost-type horror, and whilst this has the ghosts in it, it is way more than that it borrows from various different classic horror techniques that I've seen in some brilliant horror films and I loved seeing them come to life on the page. I've really enjoyed reading it, occasionally I've disliked reading it when something has stuck around in my mind way past me putting the book down, but that just goes to show how brilliantly Calum France has written this.
His writing style was brilliant from the off, it completely draws you into the story and you get invested in Eleanor's and then Alina's story and you are rooting for both of them in turn, you want them to survive being in this building and whatever haunts it. I think the only issue I had with the whole book was the numbering, i thought they were continuous chapters within the different time sections but we kept getting 1 etc for each of those I thought was a chapter. But aside from that I loved the book, it had almost two endings because when we get to the end of Eleanor's section it reads like the end of the book and we were about 50% through and the beginning of Alina's section almost feels like we're heading to a different book we don't get the connecting part of the storyline for a little while but when we do it all happens fairly quickly.
This is definitely one of my favourite horror reads of this year and I'm hoping we get another book from Calum France soon.
Krystina xx
Thank you so much for the wonderful review!!
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